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Description: Considering mortality and the difficulties of congregational life, Jeannie Corbitt Cordana preaches on what it means to have trust in God amidst the uncertainties of this world. The Scripture readings were Isaiah 58:1-12, 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10,…

Description: Bill Greenway preaches from Matthew 5, commenting on the caricature and scapegoating of all faith traditions in media and modern culture. He also articulates how the secular study of religion's insistence of a particular form of detached modern…

Description: Pamela Rivera preaches for the 2023 annual service in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Invoking the image of a ripple in a pond, she calls everyone "to be a pebble, and cause a ripple" for social change.

Description: Dave Jensen preaches on the stories of fertility and barrenness in the bible, calling out their misapplications and instead focusing on the life and death of Jesus as the ultimate act of solidarity with those who grieve. Genesis 17:1-7; 15-16 and…

Description: Rodney Caruthers uses the Parable of the Sower to generate three questions to examine how we should live a fruitful life . The Scripture reading was Luke 8:11-15.

Description: Drawing from Jesus' prediction of the destruction of the Second Temple, João Chaves calls for hopeful reimagination in our current moment of change. The Scripture reading was Luke 21:5-19.

Description: What does it mean to be home? To have a home? To leave your home? Donghyun Jeong preaches on the meaning of home on the context of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. The Scripture reading was Mark 3:19b-35

Description: God has made a new people out of jews and gentiles, out of every nation under heaven, the dead and the living, to live in communion with one another, with God, and with the rest of creation. The Scripture readings were Ephesians 1:11-23 and Luke…

Description: For the 2022 Heyer Lecture Cynthia Franklin lectures on how solution-focused brief therapy techniques can be implemented to focus on desired goals rather than existing problems.

Description: Gregory Cuéllar preaches from the story of Sarai and her servant Hagar in Genesis 16 and points out ways in which we also fail to see the humanity and suffering of others.